Sherry Weddell is the author of the best selling book, Forming Intentional Disciples: The Path to Knowing and Following Jesus. She is the editor of and a contributor to Becoming a Parish of Intentional Disciples (2015). She created the Called & Gifted discernment process in 1993, the first gifts discernment program designed especially for Catholics. In the years since then, she has helped tens of thousands of Catholics around the world discern their charisms and has trained thousands of pastoral leaders to facilitate discernment. Sherry cofounded the Catherine of Siena Institute in 1997 with Fr. Michael Sweeney, OP. Sherry currently leads CSI’s international network of traveling teachers and regional collaborators. The Institute team has trained thousands of parish and diocesan leaders at all levels to effectively call Catholics to begin consciously following Jesus as his disciples in the midst of his Church, and how to create a normative culture of intentional discipleship at the parish level. Sherry and her collaborators have worked directly with over 100,000 Catholics in well over 500 parishes in 152 dioceses and 11 countries on 5 continents. Sherry has spoken in hundreds of parishes, conferences, diocesan leadership gatherings, clergy convocations, gatherings of religious, and seminarians. When Sherry is not on the road, she enjoys living in and enjoying the Colorado Rockies and tending her high altitude Tuscan garden.